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The history of biology traces the study of the living world from ancient to modern times. Although the concept of biology as a single coherent field arose in the 19th century, the biological sciences emerged from traditions of medicine and natural history reaching back to Ayurveda, ancient Egyptian medicine and the works of Aristotle, Theophrastus and Galen in the ancient Greco-Roman world.
The following is a list of people who are considered a "father" or "mother" (or "founding father" or "founding mother") of a scientific field.Such people are generally regarded to have made the first significant contributions to and/or delineation of that field; they may also be seen as "a" rather than "the" father or mother of the field.
Nutritional science (also nutrition science, sometimes short nutrition, dated trophology [1]) is the science that studies the physiological process of nutrition (primarily human nutrition), interpreting the nutrients and other substances in food in relation to maintenance, growth, reproduction, health and disease of an organism.
The first CRISPR-gene-edited seafood and second set of CRISPR-edited food has gone on public sale in Japan: two fish [vague] of which one species grows to twice the size of natural specimens due to disruption of leptin, which controls appetite, and the other grows to 1.2 the natural size with the same amount of food due to disabled myostatin ...
Zheng Ji (Chinese: 郑集) (6 May 1900 – 29 July 2010) also known as Libin T. Cheng (his last name was spelled as Cheng in the Wade-Giles system before Pinyin was used to spell the names of Chinese people and places), [1] was a Chinese nutritionist and biochemist, sometimes regarded as the founder of modern nutrition science in China.
c. 380 BC – Diocles wrote the oldest known anatomy book and was the first to use the term anatomy. c. 350 BC – Aristotle attempted a comprehensive classification of animals. His written works include Historion Animalium , a general biology of animals, De Partibus Animalium , a comparative anatomy and physiology of animals, and De ...
Anton Dohrn (1840–1909), German marine biologist, Darwinist, founder of the world's first zoological research station, in Naples; David Don (1799–1841), British botanist who described major conifers discovered in his time, including the Coast Redwood.
Food history is an interdisciplinary field that examines the history and the cultural, economic, environmental, and sociological impacts of food and human nutrition. It is considered distinct from the more traditional field of culinary history , which focuses on the origin and recreation of specific recipes.